Robert Blass wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:18:04 -0800, "V-for-Vendicar"
sayd the following:

"Robert Blass" wrote
160 Square Miles of Antarctica is very very very tiny compared to it's
overall size.

Why is this even news?
Oh, I guess because it's an unusual event that is news worthy..

LARGE pieces of Ice breaking off of Antarctica is NOT, is NOT, news!


"Recent studies have added to a growing body of evidence that key
glaciers flowing from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are thinning at rates
not seen since the last ice age. For instance, for the past 4,700 years,
the Pine Island Glacier has thinned at a rate of about 1-1/2 inches a
year, according to a team of scientists from Britain and Germany. That
rate is similar to those of other major glaciers in the region. But
between 1992 and 1996, Pine Island Glacier thinned at an average rate of
63 inches a year. Their results appear in the March edition of the
journal Geology."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0328/p25s10-wogi.html

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